Wesley Schultz Quotes

Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.

Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make it a separate world from the rest of my life.

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.

I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.

Oh yeah - you have to write every day. Or every weekday. Because writing is a job. It's not eureka moments over and over. It's grueling work, panning for gold. You just keep at it and eventually you get a few grains. Or flakes. Or whatever gold looks like in rivers. Or maybe it's like fishing. Who cares? You just have to do it every day because you never know which day is going to be your productive day.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

The secret to writing is writing. Lots of people I know talk about writing. They will tell me about the book they are going to write, or are thinking about writing, or may write some day in the future. And I know they will never do it. If someone is serious about writing, then they will sit down every day and put some words down on paper.